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Ansar Burney(http://www.ansarburney.org)

Ansar Burney (Urdu: انصار برنی; born 14 August 1956 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan) is a leadingPakistani human rights and civil rights activist. He is a graduate of Masters and Law fromKarachi University and honorary recipient of a PhD. in Philosophy. In 1980, Ansar Burney began the “Ansar Burney Welfare Trust”, “Prisoners Aid Society”, and “Bureau of Missing and Kidnapped Persons” in Karachi, Pakistan.

Ansar Burney is accredited as being the first man to introduce the concept of human rights in Pakistan nearly 30 years ago.[1] He and his organisation (the Ansar Burney Trust) are also accredited for securing the release of around 700,000 innocent prisoners from countries all around the world

Because of his outstanding achievements in the field of human and civil rights, Ansar Burney was the first man to receive the Pakistani National Civil Award Sitara-i-Imtiaz on 23 March 2002, And due to his two decade long international campaign to end child slavery in theMiddle East in the form of child camel jockeys, Ansar Burney was declared an ‘Anti-Human Trafficking Hero’ in the 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report by the US State Department.In 2008 he was listed in a poll by The Financial Daily as a favorite personality.

Ansar Burney also played an instrumental role in getting the crew of MV Suez free from the captivity of Somali pirates in 2011.